A local non-profit live theatre group will soon embark on its 26th season, this year operating out of a new location in Asbury Park. The Premier Theatre Company has signed a long-term lease with the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] and is the midst of making enhancements to the VFW building’s […]

Asbury Park city council candidates will go head-to-head at Tuesday night’s debate-style election forum, presented by APTV. “The meet-and-greets are over,” said APTV chair John Kaplow. “This is the real informational exchange.” Residents are encouraged to go to asburyparktv.org to submit questions for the moderators to ask the candidates, Kaplow said. The League of Women […]

The city’s Cable Advisory Committee, APTV, has announced it will give Asbury Park council candidates a chance to speak their minds at a forum on Tuesday, April 30. The event will be held at VFW Post 1333, at 701 Lake Ave., and moderated by the League of Women Voters, Ocean Township section. The forum will […]

Police Officer Lorenzo Pettway and Firefighter Joseph P. Ryan III were honored at last week’s council meeting as firefighter and police officer of the year, thanks to the city’s Veterans of Foreign Wars [VFW] Post. “A man’s home is his castle,” VFW past president Lou Parisi said at the meeting. “Once we walk through that […]

Decades separate local teenagers from the members of the Asbury Park VFW, but an area mother has brought the two groups together by hiring a popular DJ to put on teen parties at VFW headquarters. Kimberly Brown [pictured at right, third from left], of Neptune, organizes the parties, which started this fall. VFW members donated […]